Virtualization Resource Guide

Virtualization Benefits from Recession

ITVirt — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:52:56 +0000

“And while people have tried to make virtualisation work earlier, today, there is a desperate bid to make it succeed because companies are extremely keen on cutting costs. As a ballpark example, consider this if you have 1,000 square meters of a data centre running 10,000 physical servers, with virtualisation you can bring this down to 100 square meters and 1,000 physical servers, thereby saving on floor space and cooling costs, which will bring down opex tremendously.”

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Source: Balaji Narasimhan

IT Virtualization Resource Guide Section: Virtualization Quotes by Experts

Virtualization 101

ITVirt — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:52:37 +0000

A solid look into the fundamentals of virtualization including definitions, concepts and components. Technical in focus. From the Resource:
Virtual machines provide:
1) Hardware independence – VM sees the same hardware regardless of the host hardware
2) Isolation – VM’s operating system is isolated from the host operating system
3) Encapsulation – Entire VM encapsulated into a single file

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Source: Eric Siebert, Vmware-land.com

IT Virtualization Resource Guide Section: Virtualization Explored

Virtualization Definition

ITVirt — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:15:15 +0000

Virtualization is software that separates an application from the underlying physical hardware on which it runs. It allows a single piece of hardware such as a server to support many applications, thereby running the software more efficiently and at lower cost.

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Source: Carolyn Duffy Marsan, NextGov

IT Virtualization Resource Guide Section: Virtualization – What is it?